Predicting the end of the world - FAIL

December 18, 2012 |By JAKE ELLISON

Notable predictions of the end

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We almost feel sorry for him: Harold Camping is one of the prolific forecasters of doom in America. He predicted the end would come in 1994, 1995, May 2011 and Oct. 2011, with the rapture and earthquakes being the modes of choice. Nevertheless, the California preacher has been honest about his failure to such a degree that the Huffington Post reported in March of this year that Camping was getting out of the prediction business. The 90-year-old said he was asking for forgiveness for his sin in predicting Judgment Day, and has stopped trying to pinpoint future dates. "We realize that many people are hoping they will know the date of Christ's return," Camping wrote. "We humbly acknowledge we were wrong about the timing." (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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We almost feel sorry for him: Harold Camping is one of the prolific forecasters of doom in America. He predicted the end would come in 1994, 1995, May 2011 and Oct. 2011, with the rapture and earthquakes being the modes of choice. Nevertheless, the California preacher has been honest about his failure to such a degree that the Huffington Post reported in March of this year that Camping was getting out of the prediction business. The 90-year-old said he was asking for forgiveness for his sin in predicting Judgment Day, and has stopped trying to pinpoint future dates. "We realize that many people are hoping they will know the date of Christ's return," Camping wrote. "We humbly acknowledge we were wrong about the timing." (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)